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Word: toye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even allowed himself to be photographed with his grandchildren in front of one of the company's sleek shiny locomotives. Railroad engineers themselves had openly admitted that its rolling stock was the best in the field. The company was Lionel Corp., world's biggest maker of toy trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lionel Line | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...Museum of Art turned up four little ivory figures. The Egyptian Government insisted on keeping three of them; the museum put the fourth on exhibition. When Expedition Director Ambrose Lansing sat down to write his report, it occurred to him that the figures were once part of a mechanical toy. He built a model to show that if the three images kept in Cairo had been mounted on a flat piece of ivory by their original owner, a string looping their spool-like bases would have made them do an about-face or a full pirouette in unison. Carved with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...glad to chant: "The best holiday trade since 1930." Christmas shopping in Washington started ten days earlier and was 30%, ahead of last year. Two big Atlanta department stores reported their business up 25%. In Memphis and Dallas there were merchants who were rubbing their hands over 50%, increases. Toy buying in Chicago was the best since boom days. And sober estimates last week placed the probable dollar volume of holiday buying 16%, above a year ago and the actual volume of goods abreast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: State of Trade | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...House. After three years' work and 18 unproduced animated cartoons of abstract dramas, she hired a cameraman and made Anitra's Dance in three months for $3,000 in her Manhattan apartment. To get her abstract effects, she used sheets of crumpled Cellophane, an egg-cutter, prisms, toy pyramids, ping pong balls, velvet, sparklers, bracelets and, chiefly, camera angles. Although the pyramids are intended to suggest the fact that Anitra danced in the Egyptian desert, Miss Bute objects to symbolism, claims no connection with surrealism. Says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...into the brilliant Klieg lights stepped Engineer H. D. Robinson. With two other engineers he had taken turns at the controls-two hours on, four hours off. The white glare of publicity proved too much for him. Just as he was being presented with a toy model of M10001 he swayed, tottered, fell to the floor in a faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Record on Rails | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

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